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Wednesday, March 01, 2006
Painter of crap, committer of fraud
For several years, a storefront in Charlottesville served as a gallery for Thomas Kinkade prints (as well as some delightfully horrible stuff from other artists). They closed shop a couple of years ago, amid swirls of bad feelings and nasty words between the gallery owners and the parent company. It seemed like the Kinkade company was undercutting national gallery owners by selling the prints at huge discounts at places like Tuesday Morning and the local malls, and using the customer lists from the galleries to send direct mailings to the
So the gallery owners have sued, and just won big. The former owners of Charlottesville's Thomas Kinkade art gallery have won $860,000 from the "Painter of Light's" company, having successfully argued that the Christian-themed firm committed fraud against its dealers. Palmyra resident Jeff Spinello and his ex-wife, Karen Hazlewood, are the first to defeat Kinkade's company in arbitration. Including legal fees, they stand to receive up to $3.5 million, said the couple's attorney, Norman Yatooma. ... Spinello and his ex-wife argued that the company forced them to buy copies of paintings that ultimately did not sell well. And dealers could not offer discounts, Yatooma said. In 2002, Kinkade's company sent out mailers to previous customers about a sale at Tuesday Morning discount stores, the lawyer said. The prices were 90 percent lower than retail, and significantly less than what Hazlewood and Spinello, as dealers, paid for the images, Yatooma added. Huzzah! |
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Ah, Kinkade. Worst. Artist. Ever.
Not actually the artist, though, if you consider his paintings are reproduced by ink-jet printers onto canvass, then touched up by a host of art students Kinkade employs. The only thing Kinkade contributes to any of these glorified posters is the blood in the signature (yes, the jesus-fish kinkade signature is supposed to contain some of the artists blood as a DNA verification tag). I wonder though, consdering he sells these things by the thousands whether or not he could contribute enough blood to get a detectable PCR signal off any given painting. Probably not.
5:39 PM, March 01, 2006
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